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# Elastic SRE - Security & Observability

- **Company:** Zachary Piper
- **Location:** Hanscom Air Force Base, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Uptime, Networking Basics, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Security Information and Event Management, Data Logging, System Availability, Delivery Pipeline, SC Clearance, Kubernetes, Terraform, Splunk
- **Published:** May 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8940449/elastic-sre-security-observability

## About the Role

5+ years of experience supporting Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure operations environments.
Strong hands-on experience with Elastic Stack in enterprise production environments.
Advanced Kubernetes experience, including ECK operator deployments.
Strong Linux/Unix administration and networking fundamentals.
Experience supporting observability, telemetry, logging, and monitoring platforms.
Experience working within secure, classified, federal, or highly regulated environments.
Ability to work onsite at Hanscom AFB (MA).
U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain or maintain a Secret clearance.

Nice-to-Haves
Elastic certifications including Elastic Engineer, Security, or Observability.
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipeline automation.
Exposure to SIEM and EDR technologies including Splunk, CrowdStrike, or Trellix.
Experience supporting GovCloud, DoD, or federal infrastructure environments.
Prior experience supporting distributed logging or telemetry platforms.

Soft Skills
Strong incident response and operational troubleshooting mindset.
Ability to remain calm and effective during production outages or high-pressure situations.
Strong collaboration skills across security, infrastructure, DevOps, and operations teams.
Excellent communication skills for escalation and operational coordination environments.
Self-sufficient and capable of operating independently within classified environments.

## Description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an experienced Elastic Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support a high-visibility federal engagement focused on observability, platform reliability, and security operations across classified environments. This position will support mission-critical Elastic infrastructure deployments at Hanscom AFB, MA The ideal candidate will have deep expertise supporting enterprise Elastic Stack environments, Kubernetes-based deployments, and production SRE operations within secure or regulated infrastructure environments., Operate, maintain, and optimize large-scale Elastic Stack environments supporting logging, search, observability, and telemetry operations.
Ensure platform reliability, uptime, scalability, and performance across production mission systems.
Manage Kubernetes-based Elastic deployments, including ECK operator environments.
Develop and maintain automation for deployment workflows, monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes.
Integrate Elastic infrastructure with SIEM and security tooling including Splunk, EDR platforms, and telemetry systems.
Troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems, infrastructure, and application environments.
Implement and support observability frameworks including logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring solutions.
Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code initiatives within DevOps environments.
Maintain operational runbooks, escalation procedures, and technical documentation.
Participate in on-call support rotations and incident response activities.


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